Lisa Jane Persky
Lisa Jane Persky (born May 5, 1955) is an American actress.
Persky was born in New York City, New York, the daughter of Jane Holley (née Wilson) and Mort Persky. She grew up in New York's Greenwich Village and attended the High School of Art and Design.
She debuted as Robert Duvall's daughter in The Great Santini and went on to act in such movies as American Pop, The Big Easy, When Harry Met Sally..., Coneheads, KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park, and Peggy Sue Got Married.
She wrote for New York Rocker magazine in the 1970s and dated former Blondie bass player Gary Valentine Lachman. On January 19, 2008, she married music historian and former co-star of the Comedy Central game show Beat the Geeks Andy Zax.
In 2009 and 2010, Persky began making appearances on The Best Show on WFMU radio program, as both as a regular caller and as an in-studio special guest.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 7.496 |
Birthday | 1955-05-05 |
Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
Also Known As | Lisa Persky, |
1986
The Big Easy
6.2/179
Remy McSwain is a New Orleans police lieutenant who investigates the murder of a local mobster. His investigation leads him to suspect that fellow mem...
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The Big Easy
1979
The Great Santini
6.734/62
As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated ma...
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The Great Santini
1985
The Sure Thing
6.513/269
Gib, a beer-guzzling slob, and Alison, an uptight Ivy-Leaguer, are an unlikely duo stuck together on a cross-country trip during Christmas break. At f...
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The Sure Thing
1993
Coneheads
5.4/869
A pair of aliens arrive on Earth to prepare for invasion, but crash instead. With enormous cone-shaped heads, robotlike walks and an appetite for toil...
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Coneheads
1981
American Pop
6.803/99
The history of American popular music runs parallel with the history of a Russian Jewish immigrant family, with each male descendant possessing differ...
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American Pop
2000
Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back
7.9/4
"Meat Loaf" Aday is an overgrown Texas youngster, the son of a gentle woman dying of cancer and an alcoholic, abusive father. Tormented by his father...
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Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back
2013
I Am Divine
7.375/88
Harris Glenn Milstead, aka Divine (1945-1988) was the ultimate outsider turned underground hero. Spitting in the face of the status quos of body image...
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I Am Divine
1994
Pontiac Moon
5.156/16
An absent-minded-professor father and his son take off in an old Pontiac to bond during a symbolic road trip through the Western U.S. This while his w...
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Pontiac Moon
1989
When Harry Met Sally...
7.409/3971
During their travel from Chicago to New York, Harry and Sally debate whether or not sex ruins a friendship between a man and a woman. Eleven years lat...
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When Harry Met Sally...
1983
Breathless
5.857/227
Jesse, a small-time criminal, high-tails it to Los Angeles to rendezvous with a French exchange student. Stealing a car and accidentally killing a hig...
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Breathless
2006
Grilled
4.963/68
Maurice and Dave sell high-end cuts of beef, but after hitting a patch of no sales, they're facing being fired. Maurice needs money to enroll in his f...
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Grilled
1986
Peggy Sue Got Married
6.1/532
Peggy Sue faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.
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Peggy Sue Got Married
1984
The Cotton Club
6.527/387
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
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The Cotton Club
1990
Vital Signs
4.9/14
As they enter their third year of medical school, a group of young students must prepare to decide what they intend to specialize in. Somehow, they mu...
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Vital Signs
2001
An American Rhapsody
6.2/64
A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later, the family arranges...
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An American Rhapsody
1983
Desperate Intruder
5/1
A blind woman living at a lonely beach house gives sanctuary to an escaped convict whose ruthless partner is on the way.
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Desperate Intruder
1989
Great Balls of Fire!
6.272/302
The story of Jerry Lee Lewis, arguably the greatest and certainly one of the wildest musicians of the 1950s. His arrogance, remarkable talent, and unc...
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Great Balls of Fire!
1990
The Last of the Finest
5.9/32
An elite group of vice cops are fired from the L.A.P.D. for being over-zealous in their war against drugs. It is immediately apparent that some of the...
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The Last of the Finest
1998
Where's Marlowe?
5.7/9
After making a disastrous 3-hour documentary on New York City's water supply, two young filmmakers focus on the goings-on of life in the LA offices of...
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Where's Marlowe?
1995
Destiny Turns on the Radio
5.213/40
Johnny Destiny burns into Las Vegas in his hot Plymouth RoadRunner, stopping only to pick up a stranger stranded in the desert. But then, things aren'...
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Destiny Turns on the Radio
1999
Goosed
3.6/5
Sheltered rich girl Charlene has an over-protective mother who insists that her daughter should marry a rich doctor. After Charlene's psychic predicts...
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Goosed
1976
Elaine: A Story of Lost Love
0/0
Adapted from an obscure Guy de Maupassant novella, lifted from a paperback bought by Meaney as an undergrad for 99 cents. What’s evident is Horn’s fas...
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Elaine: A Story of Lost Love
2002
The Dogwalker
2/1
The L.A. dog walking scene provides a colorful backdrop for the story of Ellie Moore, damaged goods on the run from her latest abusive boyfriend and o...
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The Dogwalker
1981
The Choice
0/0
A young woman agonizes over whether or not to have an abortion and learns that her mother did the same 20 years prior.
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The Choice
2001
My First Mister
6.473/56
Leelee Sobieski is brash, abrasive and vulnerable as a teenage child of divorce who hides her pain behind a mask of hard-edged gothic rebellion. Alber...
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My First Mister
1988
Sharing Richard
0/0
Three friends decide to date the same man.
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Sharing Richard
1979
KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park
5.413/69
The tale of rock band KISS and their efforts to thwart a diabolical plan by mad scientist Abner Devereaux. Devereaux has found a way to clone humans i...
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KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park
1999
Tumbleweeds
6.488/43
Whenever trouble strikes in one of her relationships, single mother Mary Jo Walker and her daughter, Ava, pack up and move to another city, a routine...
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Tumbleweeds
1984
Shattered Vows
3.8/3
At the age of 16 Mary becomes a nun. But she never gets used to the strict rules of her new life and when she falls in love with Father Tim, she wants...
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Shattered Vows
1998
Perfect Assassins
5.8/5
When deadly terrorists strike, an FBI man, who is an expert on terrorist mentality, hunts their twisted "creator," who may be connected with a disgrac...
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Perfect Assassins
1996
Female Perversions
4.9/44
An ambitious female attorney wallows in excess and meaningless sex with both male and female partners, while dealing with her personal life problems i...
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Female Perversions
1994
Dead Funny
5/2
When her practical joker boyfriend dies, a young woman recalls all the pranks he pulled as she tries to figure out who murdered him.
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